Qwen: Qwen3 8B
qwen/qwen3-8b
OpenRouter lists this route as expiring on Oct 9, 2026. Plan a replacement before then.
Price Published
- Input
- $0.12 per million tokens
- Output
- $0.46 per million tokens
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Specifications Published
- Context window
- 131,072 tokens
- Max output
- 8,192 tokens
- Tool calling
- Supported
- Vision input
- Not listed
- Reasoning
- Supported
- Knowledge cutoff
- Mar 31, 2025
- Listed since
- Apr 28, 2025
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Benchmarks Artificial Analysis via OpenRouter
- Intelligence index
- Not reported
- Coding index
- 9.0
- Agentic index
- 0.8
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About this model OpenRouter description
Qwen3-8B is a dense 8.2B parameter causal language model from the Qwen3 series, designed for both reasoning-heavy tasks and efficient dialogue. It supports seamless switching between "thinking" mode for math,...
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